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For most football players winning three Welsh Cups, three English First Division League titles, an FA Cup and two UEFA Cups would amount to a job extremely well done. For John Toshack, the haul underpinned a career in management which...

Aston Villa's 1982 European Cup win in many ways was the most romantic in football history. And yet, set against the backdrop of English dominance in the competition it is widely a forgotten achievement. Having achieved promotion seven...

In the year when Manchester City, managed by Pep Guardiola, swept its way to the Premier League title, Caught Beneath the Landslide examines another, very different club, also called Manchester City. This is the Manchester City of Maine...

At the start of the twenty-first century, John Arne Riise was regarded as one of the most buccaneering left-sided players in European football. During an illustrious career where he won a Champions League title with Liverpool, he became...

Bruce Grobbelaar is the most decorated goalkeeper in Liverpool FC's 125-year history. And yet, question marks have followed him around; question marks about his goalkeeping suitability; question marks about his integrity after match...

When Andy Grant's eyes blinked open from a 10-day coma in February 2009 he was alone in a hospital bed in Birmingham. He had a broken sternum, two broken legs, a broken elbow and shrapnel lodged in both forearms. He had a severed femoral...

Italia '90 was the best and worst of World Cups. It made a global star of England's inspirational Paul Gascoigne and gave fresh confidence to English football but it was also the lowest- scoring of all World Cups, leading directly to the...

Jens Lehmann is one of football's most recognisable goalkeepers. In a playing career stretching across four decades he represented three of Europe's most illustrious clubs. Winning Bundesliga and Premier League titles only tell apart of...

The island of Ireland sent two international teams to the European Championships finals in France in 2016. The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland were both managed by a man called O'Neill — Martin and Michael — both were...

Tony Coton is considered as one of the best goalkeepers never to play for England. In There to be Shot At, he tells his extraordinary life story for the first time. Born in Tamworth, Coton overcame rejection at Aston Villa and...

In April 2011, Barcelona and Real Madrid faced each other four times in just 18 days: twice in Champions League semi-finals, once in La Liga, again in the Copa del Rey. Those 18 days descended into a strained, feverish period that de ned...

As the days became shorter and the nights darker, Simon Hughes began a journey through the country's most successful football region during the winter of the 2016/17 English season. Starting in Carlisle and heading south, Hughes went...